..This age-graded effect emerges even for illnesses that are known to share a biological substrate with depression (e.g. vascular disorders). The results are discussed with respect to theories of illness, depression, and aging...

Methuselah's medicine: pharmaceutical innovation and mortality in the United States, 1960-2000

..Because of the blunt nature of the forces propelling a biomedical view--including the growing popularity of psychiatric medications--altering beliefs about the etiology of mental illness is unlikely, on its own, to increase tolerance...

Psychological factors as mechanisms for socioeconomic disparities in health: a critical appraisal of four common factors

..The results are discussed in light of theory regarding the perpetuation of health disparities, as well as current debates regarding the apparent incompatibility of distributive versus aggregative goals in health policy...

Look (closely) at all the lonely people: age and the social psychology of social support

..Yet the results also suggest that the role of genetic endowments varies considerably across different features of success, suggesting complex patterns of selection, reinforcement, and causation among genes and the environment...

The promise and limits of racial/ethnic concordance in physician-patient interaction